HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080565220
Bassin de Niger
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Diré, Goundam, Tombouctou
Sub-basin area
544,2km²
Upstream area
10 602,9km²
Discharge
49,76m³/s
Mean elev.
265m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080566330602 km²
- Bassin · #1080566540147 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 300.3 km²55.4% of basin
- 164.0 km²30.2% of basin
- 78.0 km²14.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Delta Intérieur du Niger
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
494.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 14 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,4°C
Annual rain
211mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
66mm/an
PET
2 155mm
AET
175mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
21cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)